YouTube CEO: “My Number One Responsibility Is Keeping Our Ecosystem Of Creators, Viewers…Partners, Safe”

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. During an interview with CBS Mornings, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan framed the platform as a place where all creators can be heard before discussing how it censors in the name of “safety” and stacks the deck in favor of legacy media outlets. Mohan watched YouTube’s famous first upload, “Me at the zoo,” before remarking, “It reminds me of where YouTube came from.” The YouTube CEO continued by saying, “In some senses, we’re exactly the same as where that video started. We are a place where our objective, our mission, is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.” However, when CBS Morning’s host Tony Dokoupil commented that “there are some people in this world you would not love to have a bigger voice,” Mohan admitted that the platform isn’t the free speech panacea he initially presented. “My number one responsibility is keeping our ecosystem of creators, viewers, all of our partners safe on YouTube, and I put that above anything else that we do,” Mohan said. He added that this focus on safety is “the North Star by which we govern all of our actions.” The buzzwords “safe” and “safety” appear in many YouTube policies to justify the censorship of numerous types of speech. For example, YouTube’s medical “misinformation” policy prohibits contradicting current health authority guidelines regarding the safety of approved vaccines and promoting treatments that health authorities haven’t recognized as safe….YouTube CEO: “My Number One Responsibility Is Keeping Our Ecosystem Of Creators, Viewers…Partners, Safe”